Any reason I couldn't make my own body lift?

I need a 2" body lift for my truck so the doubler will clear the floor pan. I only have the four mounts on the cab, so I really only need 4 2" spacers. Is there any reason I couldn't make my own from a piece of tube in the correct diameter? Don't want to buy a full blown kit just for 4 of the pucks.

there so easy to make, I made mine out of round stock aluminum that was a bit bigger then my urethane bushings and drilled a hole in it. I onle went about 1 1/4, I think thats enough to clear a doubler. being solid there good and strong.

Cool, I didn't think there'd be any reason I couldn't make'em...Just wanted to be sure. I'd rather make them for a couple reasons... I only need 4 pucks- no hardware and I can't wait for them to come in the mail. Need to beable to move the truck from where it's parked in the next day or two. Thanks again.

I can't mod the floor on my truck. The tubes that the seats are mounted to that go from slider to slider are sitting right on the floor on the inside of the truck. Even if I did cut a hole in the floor, the tubes would be in the way. This picture kinda shows that-

I did have to sawz-all the front roll cage tube where it mounts to the door hinge. Gotta lower the mount for that tube now.

I called a 4x4 shop in town on the off chance that they'd have some 2" pucks I could buy individually. They didn't, but they did keep a case of hockey pucks on hand. So I ended up with 8 1" thick hockey pucks. They worked beautifully. $3.50 each. Also replaced my old mounts with new rubber ones from the dealer.

With the body lift done, I went to bolt the first crossmember under the doubler and found out the my IR 2135ti impact gun has enough ass to twist a brand new 7/16" grade 8 bolt in half without so much as a snort.

I bought 8 hockey pucks from Dunham's for $.99/each to use for my 2" body lift so I could get it on the trailer (2wd cab with low hump with a 465/208). I don't like them. Been driving it around on them for a month. Feels like you're on a jetski. It rolls a lot and is quite skeery to drive hard.

I bought Tim's old 3" body lift pucks. I'm going to cut the plastic pucks with the table saw to use instead of the hockey pucks. If you want to send me $10 I'll ship four out to you.

No worries on sending me anything. I'll prolly end up making some kinda spacer out of tube or something when I get around to it. I was in a hurry to get the truck moved and the hockey pucks were quick and easy.

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